Choiseul

Choiseul in the Bassigny was the ancestral home of the noble house that bore its name. Its castle stood on a mound and owed allegiance to the bishop of Langres. Inheritances divided the family's lands during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, reducing the barony to villages near the castle. During the Wars of Religion, Huguenots sheltered in the unguarded castle in 1573 and held Protestant preaching there. The stronghold was already ruined when rebellious nobles seized it in 1616.